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The Book of Giants in The Dead Sea Scrolls And Other Sources

Simona Rich
12 min readAug 12, 2023

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The fragments of The Book of Giants discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls give us a better insight into the events recorded in Genesis 6:4 about the time when giants dwelt on earth.

In The Book of Enoch and other apocryphal books we read that when the sons of YHWH descended to take human women for their wives, they taught them all kinds of things that they themselves knew not in full, and because of these teachings, humanity fell into immorality and destruction.

Through the teachings of the fallen ones, the whole world became defiled, and therefore, it is told, YHWH had to cause the flood to wipe out the corrupted creation.

Utnapishtim’s ark — the Babylonian Gilgamesh, a survivor of the great flood.

The Book of Giants, although found only in small fragments in the Dead Sea Scrolls, provides a better insight into what took place in those days of corruption. And, when coupled with the same story told by different cultures, we fill many gaps and get a good picture of what took place in those early days of the world.

In different cultures, The Book of Giants can be found with cultural and religious interpolations. However, the main story remains the same. Here is my…

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Simona Rich
Simona Rich

Written by Simona Rich

❇ ACIM Student ❇ Life Coach ❇ SimonaRich.com

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